Repertoires and choices in african languages, Friederike Lüpke & Anne Storch

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Repertoires and choices in african languages, Friederike Lüpke & Anne Storch

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Friederike Lüpke & Anne Storch

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• Repertoires and choices in african languages

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• Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2013

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Contents

• Preface; List of Tables, Maps and Figures; List of figures with cited and archived web pages; Copyrights for reproduced photographs; List of Languages; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 What this book is about; 2 Structure of the book; 1 Multilingualism on the ground; 1.1 Societal multilingualism in Senegal; 1.2 Individual repertoires: six case studies; 1.2.1 Localist identities for moving targets; 1.2.2 Purposeful alienation: the ethnolinguistic chameleon; 1.2.3 The rhetorical return to lost roots; 1.2.4 A return to what roots?; 1.2.5 I am what I speak?; 1.2.6 Well, I'm not what I speak
• 1.3 Societal practices nurturing multilingualism1.3.1 Exogynous marriage patterns and movement of daughters; 1.3.2 Language acquisition in peer groups and age classes; 1.3.3 Fostering; 1.3.4 Professional, ritual and crisis mobility and migration; 1.3.5 Joking relationships; 1.4 Written languages and the interaction of written and spoken repertoires; 1.4.1 The ecology of writing in Senegal; 1.4.2 The making of guilty illiterates; 1.4.3 African writing: what scope, which languages and scripts?; 1.4.3.1 Grapho- and eurocentric ideologies and "restricted literacies."
• 1.4.3.2 Some literacies are more visible than others1.4.3.3 Ajami literacies; 1.4.3.4 The Ge'ez script; 1.4.3.5 The Bamun syllabary; 1.4.3.6 N'ko; 1.4.3.7 The Tifinagh script; 1.4.3.8 The Vai syllabary; 1.5 For an integrated view of spoken and written multilingual and multiscriptal practices; 2 Doing things with words; 2.1 Some symbolic dimensions of language; 2.2 A complete language; 2.3 Speech registers; 2.3.1 Play languages; 2.3.2 Youth languages; 2.3.3 Respect languages and other examples of paralexification; 2.3.4 Special purpose languages; 2.3.5 Avoidance languages
• 2.3.6 Ritual languages2.3.7 Spirit languages; 2.4 What we can learn from users of speech registers; 3 Language and ideology; 3.1 Language and power; 3.1.1 Missionary activities and literacy development efforts; 3.1.2 Power relationships; 3.1.3 Conflicting language ideologies; 3.2 Reducing diversity and creating standards; 3.3 Constructing linguistic deficits and reacting to language obsolescence; 3.3.1 Lack of words, abundance of sounds; 3.3.2 The visible and the invisible; 3.4 Remaining who we are: local theories and concepts of translation; 3.4.1 Socio-historical background
• 3.4.2 Foreign text in women's tales3.4.3 Translating silence; 3.5 Ways of making history; 3.5.1 Eastern origins; 3.5.2 Hone interpretations of Kisra traditions; 3.5.3 Spirits of the past; 3.5.4 Where people think (and don't think) they come from; 3.6 Ideologies, semiotics and multilingualism; 4 Language and knowledge; 4.1 Creation of knowledge; 4.1.1 The invention of tradition; 4.1.2 The view from within; 4.1.3 Essentialization vs. inclusion; 4.2 Invention of evolution: colonial encounters; 4.2.1 Why collect, count and classify African languages?

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9781614511946

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